Ormita and the Environment

Wastage is not primarily created because of over-consumption:

It is created because of over-production and inefficient use of what is produced. Throwing things away instead of recycling or on-selling is one of the major causes of environmental waste across the globe.

Ormita allows businesses to recover the cost, and to make a profit, on their previously surplus or overstocked items whilst maintaining the integrity of both the environment and their own balance sheets.

Time and excess capacity are another priceless non-recoverable, non-recyclable limited commodity. Selling or donating under-utilized time and capacity means greater wealth for the buyer and the local community.

Some other features unique to the Ormita product:

Offers the ability for your company to reduce its waste footprint

Provides a more efficient way to use and dispose of assets whilst retaining their value

Both unsold products and services can be on-sold without loosing their value

Economies of scale, transfer pricing, and capitalising on cheap Third World labour or raw materials enables larger multinational and interstate manufacturers and retailers to tip the so-called “level playing field” in their direction, to the detriment of local businesses. Ormita is a solution to these issues:

As stocks of unused goods become mobilized, people become employed, and those traditionally at the “bottom” of the economy like home-makers, farmers and unskilled labourers find a place in the economy, and through it, in society

Ormita provides an opportunity for local enterprises to sell their products and for communities to reduce the need for imports

Community relations and standards of living improve

Increased local trade helps to ensure that more local assets stay within the community

Building Community Networks

Because Ormita plugs its members into a local information network, it provides new or isolated residents living in a local community with an instantaneous community support system of other entrepreneurs and consumers.

Local Welfare

Community wealth is not related to the amount of cash in a community, but the amount of assets, capacity and skills. Ormita offers a way to mobilise and transfer assets in times when cash is difficult to come by yet allows for pricing integrity to stay the same.

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